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> Any other manufacturer would have either been too small to be so influential Maybe small manufacturers, but if Nokia or Motorola had done it first (with good
by pier25 5y ago
> Any other manufacturer would have either been too small to be so influential
Maybe small manufacturers, but if Nokia or Motorola had done it first (with good software) maybe we'd be a in different world.
- macintux 5y agoYou left out the rest of that... > or would have hedged their bets with a dozen alternatives Nokia or Motorola wouldn't have bet their phone business on a single UI/hardware combination like Apple did, and so I don't believe it would have had the technological impact the iPhone did.
- pier25 5y agoThat's a good point. Maybe you're right, who knows.
- toast0 5y agoNokia pissed off too many US carriers around this time. They were pushing a preinstalled VoIP client, and US carriers responded by dropping their phones. Even if they had something great, the US focus of tech media would have made it hard to see, and the US/EU frequency differences would have made it hard to use in the US unless Nokia made a US version, but lack of distribution makes that less likely.